Here's the thing about antique china. Most people assume those dusty old plates stacked in Grandma's cabinet are just ...

WASHINGTON – Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people. The find in Yuchanyan Cave dates to as much as 18,000 ...

WASHINGTON -- Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people. The find in Yuchanyan Cave dates to as much as 18,000 ...

BEIJING – Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say. The findings, which will ...

Archaeologists working at a Bronze Age cemetery in northwest China have uncovered pottery vessels containing residue that reveals a sophisticated brewing technique dating back nearly 4,000 years. The ...

There is a folk saying in China, "piles of gold aren't worth a single piece of Jun porcelain," which fully explains the value of Jun porcelain that has been fervently sought by Chinese collectors ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Q I read your article about porcelain plates (Nov. 23) and was reminded of a set I have in my possession. My husband’s great-great grandfather, a wholesaler of spices in Gothenburg, Sweden, ordered ...

China hasn’t always been trying to catch up with the West. Gunpowder, the compass, paper and movable type: The Chinese are famous for inventing them all. A little less well known is that the Chinese ...

A Tang Dynasty (618-907) black-glazed waist drum housed at the Palace Museum in Beijing. CHINA DAILY The fame of China's porcelain capital Jingdezhen, a city in Jiangxi province, has drawn tourists ...